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Browse library books, articles, streaming videos, and more related to digital arts.

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Library Databases

A library database is a collection of different sources such as magazine articles, journal articles, ebooks, streaming videos, images, and more.  You can find information about the digital arts by searching with a topic keyword or combination of words.

Example searches:

  • cross-media marketing
  • marketing and social networking
  • digital media technology and graphic design
  • design and visual communications

Some recommended databases for articles on digital arts:

General Research Resources

Browse selected titles below from the SCC Library then find more print books and ebooks.

SCC Library Books and eBooks

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The Art of Graphic Communication

Whether a map explaining the subway system, an Internet meme about women's empowerment, or a logo on a laptop, graphic design is everywhere. The Art of Graphic Communication discusses what today's artists are doing, how they attract a following, and what they are saying through their artwork.

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Creative Expression and the Law

A 2022 Choice Reviews Outstanding Academic TitleCreative Expression and the Law helps readers better comprehend the legal pitfalls that can present themselves when artists and content creators are generating ideas, producing content and protecting and defending their creative work. In doing so, the book provides a deeper, more targeted examination of copyright, trademark and right of publicity law than is found in standard communication law texts.

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Designing Type

... In this invaluable book, Karen Cheng explains the processes behind creating and designing type, one of the most important tools of graphic design. She addresses issues of structure, optical compensation, and legibility, with special emphasis given to the often-overlooked relationships between letters and shapes in font design. In this second edition, students and professional graphic designers alike will benefit from an expanded discussion of the creative practice of designing type--what designers need to consider, their rationale, and issues of accessibility--in the context of contemporary processes for the digital age.    

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Digital Curation

As an in-depth explanation of the entire digital curation lifecycle, from creation to appraisal to preservation to organization/access to transformation, the first edition of this text set a benchmark for both thoroughness and clarity. Boasting the expert guidance of international authorities Oliver and Harvey, this revamped and expanded edition widens the scope to address continuing developments in the strategies, technological approaches, and activities that are part of this rapidly changing field. 

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Reinventing Print

With the rise of digital technology as a design tool and its acceptance as simply part of the tool chest for today's design studios, there has been a re-evaluation and return to exploring pre-digital typography. Design studios no longer flaunt their digital hardware, in fact quite the opposite. This attitudinal change toward digital technology has coincided with a growing fascination and re-evaluation of those pre-digital skills and processes that had been considered in recent years to be irrelevant. 

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The Designer's Dictionary of Type

The Designer's Dictionary of Type follows in the footsteps of The Designer's Dictionary of Color, providing a vivid and highly accessible look at an even more important graphic design ingredient: typography. From classic fonts like Garamond and Helvetica to modern-day digital fonts like OCR-A and Keedy Sans, author and designer Sean Adams demystifies 48 major typefaces, describing their history, stylistic traits, and common application. Adams provides eye-catching illustrated examples, this time showcasing the beauty and expressiveness of typography, as employed by the world's greatest designers. 

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Ethics in Design and Communication: Critical Perspectives

This timely collection brings together critical, analytic, historical, and practical studies to address what ethics means in the practice of design. Designers face the same challenges as everyone else in the complex conditions of contemporary cultural life-choices about consumption, waste, exploitation, ecological damage, and political problems built into the supply chains on which the global systems of inequity currently balance precariously. 

Check out select streaming videos below from Films on Demand and Academic Video Online in the library's databases

 

Watch Streaming Videos from the SCC Library

David Pugh: Graphic Designer & Entrepreneur

David Pugh discusses his work as a graphic designer and entrepreneur.

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Nikk iHayes: Graphic Designer!

Nikk iHayes discusses her work as a graphic designer.

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Social Network Coordinator

From Academic Video Online (AVON):

A Social Network Coordinator helps the Candidate navigate the confusing landscape of social media. Understand the responsibilities they must perform in the role.

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Branding and Design

From Academic Videos Online (AVON):

Create a brand online through the use of web design, graphic design (Illustrator and Photoshop), outsourcing, social media, and various other strategies.

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Early Career

From Films on Demand:

Duncan Mitchell started his career in package design, then taught desktop publishing and other digital skills at DDB. He explains that his digital experience was especially valuable at this time. Mitchell and John Immesoete discuss the challenges of advertising when the internet was new and how it has changed since then.

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What is Digital Publishing

From Films on Demand:

Digital publishing combines text and graphics in a document; see examples. Titus B. describes how he redesigned packaging for his company's bestselling product using digital publishing; he received a raise and promotion.